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Charlie
Charlie

Reputation: 107

Is it possible to run webdriverio app tests against AWS Device Farm without uploading the test suite?

We currently have a suite of webdriverio/appium tests for our react native app, with separate wdio.conf files for local, simulator, BrowserStack etc.

All of the examples I can find for device farm either involve first uploading the test suite as a zip up front, or creating a custom test runner that obtains a selenium grid url from Device Farm and then triggers the wdio command (but I can only see this being used for Selenium, nothing for appium/app testing).

Is it not possible to run tests from my local machine whilst pointing to AWS Device Farm devices?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 301

Answers (1)

drunkencheetah
drunkencheetah

Reputation: 408

Unfortunately this is not possible with AWS Device Farm, as you have already noticed that they do not have a Selenium Grid for mobile devices. In general for me it has been a huge hassle to get Appium tests to work on AWS using CI/CD - both because of the setup and the inability to easily debug since I can't run the tests locally against their devices. I would advise using another cloud farm service like Browserstack which allows you to target their grid from your local machine

Upvotes: 0

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